Advertising-wheel.



Patented Dec. 3|, I90l.

A. B. CHUBBUCK.

ADVERTISING WHEEL.

(Application filed July 28, 1.901)

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. No. 690,132 Patented Dec. 3], I901.

A. B. CHUBBUCK.

ADVERTISING WHEEL.

(Application filed July 23, 1901.)

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- UNTTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVA B. CHUBBUOK, OF JANESV'ILLE, \VISCONSIN.

ADVERTISING-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,132, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed July 23,1901. Serial. No. 69,438. (No model.)

to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved ad vertising-wheel, the object of the invention being to provide an advertising wheel which will be so mounted as to permit it to be turned by the current of a stream to display a number of advertisements.

A further object is to provide a float and mechanism thereon operated by the current of the stream to display a large amount of ad- '20 vertising matter.

A further object is to provide an advertising-wheel having means for supporting it on a stream of water with improved means for holding each paddle or blade of the wheel in z 5 an upright position long enough to display the sign or advertisement thereon.

WVith this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of 0 parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view illustrating my improvements Fig. 2 is a top plan view, partly in section.

Fig. 3 is a side view. Fig. 4 is a view illustrating the castings 5, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the wheel blades or paddles.

1 1 represent parallel timbers spaced apart and connected at their ends by boards 2, form- 2 ing a float and the support for my improvements, which will now be described.

On timbers 1, about their center, bearings 3 are secured and support a rotary shaft 4, on which castings 5 are secured by set-screws 6.

These castings 5 have the general shape of a Maltese cross, and the four arms or members thereof are provided with sleeves 5 to receive the tubular frame 7 of the paddles or blades on the main advertising wheel, and said frames are secured in the sleeves by setscrews 8. To the frames 7 sheet-metal plates 9 are secured by bending the edges thereof over the tubular frame.

Vertical shafts 10 are mounted centrally on timbers 1 and are provided between their ends with shoulders or collars 11, forming supports for advertising-wheels 12. The upper ends of these shafts 10 are supported in bearing-sleeves 10 at the ends of a tubular frame 1 1, secured on the float, and a transverse rod 13 is bent at its ends and projects into bearing-sleeves 10 and holds the shafts in a vertical position.

The wheels 12 are constructed precisely like the main wheel, except that each blade of the wheels 12 is provided with downwardly-projecting pins or lugs 13 in the path of the paddles of the main wheel, so that when the latter is turned by the current it will also turn the small wheels a quarter-turn, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

A coiled spring 12 is provided on each sleeve 10 and bears against the wheels 12 to act as a friction-brake and limit the turning of the wheels.

On each of the blades of the main wheel shallow metal cups 15 are seen red and air collects in the same and serves to temporarily retard the movement of the paddle through the water, hence holding the blade in a vertical position for a few moments-10m g enough to enable the advertisement thereon to be clearly read. These cups 15 are made with small perforations 16 to permit the air to escape and also to permit the water to run out, the weight of the water assisting to retard the revolution of the wheel.

To each blade of the main wheel metal plates 17 are secured and are adapted to have advertisements printed thereon. These plates display their advertisements when the paddle is in a vertical position and in the water, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. I

The operation of my improvements is as follows: The float is anchored in a convenient place in the stream with the longitudinal timbers llying in the direction of the current and the upper vertical blade turned with its cup pointing upstream and the advertising matter looking downstream. When a paddle is moved by the current into an upright position, so as to display the sign or advertiseposition until the Water is exhausted through" the perforations in said cup, or, in other words, long enough to permit the reading of the advertisement on the upright paddle, and hence it will be seen that the cups not only serve asair-chambers to halt the Wheel, but also. serve as water-chambers, the weight of which when filled also serving to halt the Mheeland iprevent for a moment its being turned the current .of the stream. The nu-mberof perforations and the size thereof and the size .of the .eups can be regulated aeeording to the current of water, as in very. swift currents a large cup with small and femperforation-s is rneqzuined, while in slowlymoving cur-rents small cups and a larger number of perforations will be necessary, As

the bladestof the main wheel :pass betwe n the Nertiealshafts 151 they-willstrike agai;nst

the fin ers -13 on the blades of 1 he smalle mheelslfl and turn the latter a quarter-turn toid -splayztheseyeral advertisements thereon.

Variousslight changes might be so ted inthe general 'fQ' Zm and arrangemen 0f the several parts described W-ithoutdeparting 'rfi t lnathelspinit and scope of my invention,

and hence I= i.'-to.u1d;1. ;a.ve it unde stoo that :I --..d ne ish .to limit myself to the precise-details set forth, but consider myself at liberty toni-akesuehshght ehang sand alterations as fair y fel -within the spir t ..;an.d scope ref invent n- ;.:H.-a.ving;fu ly described nyi ve ntio whet aL laim asinew, an .desi retese nre y L tters Patent, is

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5, In an advertising-wheel, the eorn bination W- fi fle of a shaft on sai flee l nounted to rotate, cross-shaped castings vs eeiliied on said sha t hay ng s eeses thereon, pad comprising t bul r frames adapted to :he s

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meta plates ben ove said framesandjeups on said paddles or. blades haying perforations therein. v

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In testimo y w reo I have signed this specificat on i h presencep two subser ins i esses- ALVA B. onussnore Witnesses:

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